#sapphic horror books

[rosealouette]

Woesome is Clarissa

by Rose Alouette Nightingale

summary —

"Woesome is Clarissa, daughter of the moon." 

Bree Acomb does not believe in ghost stories, even as she moves with her mother back to their family home in a quaint, eerie Midwestern town known for its legends of ghosts and demons. On Halloween night, Bree is taken with her friends to the town's signature bridge, where she learns the tale of Clarissa: a beautiful young woman who threw herself from the bridge to her death in the late 1800s. Along with her friends, Bree attempts to summon Clarissa as a joke, and nothing happens - until Clarissa shows up in Bree's room one night, awakened and furious, demanding nothing short of retribution and bloodshed.

INFO!

genres — horror, lgbtq+, psychological thriller

status — newly published as ebook and hardcover on amazon

author — rose alouette nightingale

ABOUT THE MAIN CHARACTER!

Bree Acomb is a high school student who resides in the mysterious, small Midwestern town of Acombstead, which her family established years ago. Though Bree is only now returning to the town in her senior year of high school after living across the country her entire life, Bree is already experiencing and learning about the rich, malevolent history of her family in their development of Acombstead. As for her appearance, Bree has long auburn hair that she usually wears perfectly curled over her shoulders. She is 5’6, pansexual, and white.

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS!

Albany — Sarcastic, snarky, and a bit of a bitch, Albany is every high school goth with a god complex. She’s the leader of Bree’s group of friends, a sort of alternative Regina George, and she loves thrifting, rock music, and getting high while listening to ghost stories. Albany is 5’4, queer, and white.

Dot — Labeled the Granola Mom of the group, Dot is the only sensible one of Bree’s friends. She struggles with anxiety, and the ghost stories her friends love so much tend to only make it worse. Dot is 5’2, bisexual, and Chilean.

Richard — He thinks he’s cool, but he really isn’t. If you want to find Richard, check the school library or a shop where you can find horribly ugly sweaters. Richard is 6’0, gay, and white.

Milo — The hippie of hippies, Milo will always have his guitar and some joints at the ready. He’s down for anything, but he, too, tends to be wary of ghosts. Milo is 5’10, refuses to label his sexuality, and is mixed white and Puerto Rican.

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“Upon my awakening, may our souls meet in peace.”

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 5/5

Book Blurb: At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night? This heart-pounding slasher by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is perfect for fans of Fear Street. Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they'll need figure out what this killer is after. Is there is more to the story of Mirror Lake and its dangerous past than Charity ever suspected?

Review:

Charity Curtis plays a “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake, it’s the perfect job for a horror fan... except this time it’s no longer a game and there is an actual killer out there hunting them down... and Charity is going to have to try and figure out the camp’s bloody past to figure out who the killer is and if she can actually make it out alive. Charity spends her summer at her dream job, playing a final girl at Camp mirror Lake. Guests come to experience a full-contact terror game, where Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. But this summer is different, Charity’s coworkers begin disappearing and when one person actually ends up dead, Charity is beginning to realize that there is something much darker going on and that the fictional film might be more real than she expected. Now she’ll have to use all her knowledge and skill as a final girl to try and save the rest of her crew and her girlfriend if they want to survive the night... but who could the killer be? This was such a fun read! I adore horror movies and this was a great read, the twist had me reading until the end and I definitely enjoyed the ending! It was such a great read and I think it’d be the perfect read for any horror fans out there!

*Thanks Netgalley and Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, Bloomsbury YA for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

[think-im-kind-of-gay]

I need sapphic horror books that are ACTUALLY SCARY PLEASE I BEG OF THEE. I want to be spooked out and not have to read about striaght people.

[foundintheforgotten]

The Kickstarter campaign is LIVE HERE!

If you're interested in a sapphic, grimdark fantasy comic series featuring romance and horror, and older lady love interests, please consider checking our page out and pledging! If you are unable to, you can still help by spreading the word and reblogging!

We finally finished the sketch for our tarot card design!! What do you guys think? Spicy enough? It'll look even better when it's fully rendered!

[apolline-lucy]

my book, THE SILVER BIRDS, is out!!!

On a cursed island where birds steal hearts and blades of grass cut sharper than knives, two young women driven by revenge take on solving a series of mysterious deaths.

Every winter’s first snow, a flock of silver birds descends upon Namu Island and leaves with a heart. When River’s father is taken, she seeks vengeance.

But soon uncanny events unfold: islanders die in eerie ways, the woods turn green in the dead of winter, River’s brother disappears, and a strange woman turns up.

To save her brother and unravel the island’s mystery, River will be cast into an unexpected alliance that will challenge her beliefs, trust, and love.

THE SILVER BIRDS is a queer enemies-to-lovers dark fantasy novel, which features conflicted characters filled with rage and wants for revenge, yet fiercely protective of the ones they trust enough to love. There is no good and evil, but rather a beautifully dark grey where monsters who aren’t really monsters live.

[sapphicbookclub]

Monstersona by Chloe Spencer

After her parents' divorce, 16 year old Riley Grishin is forced to move from Portland, Oregon all the way to Little Brook, Maine, a small town that serves as the headquarters for Titan Technologies, an international tech laboratory. Having left her friends and father behind, Riley spends most of her days running through the woods with her dog Tigger, and eavesdropping on her classmates-in particular, the gorgeous, but very strange, Aspen Montehugh.

On the night of the homecoming game, Riley wakes up to find her town on fire, terrorized by an unseen monster. With flames spreading rapidly, Riley and Tigger have no choice but to pile into her beat-up pickup truck and flee. Speeding out of town, they come across the only other survivor: Aspen.

When Riley and Aspen finally reach safety, they realize something far more sinister is afoot. According to the news, all other Titan Tech laboratories on the East Coast have been attacked. And even worse, they're being followed by an SUV with blacked out windows. With all air travel grounded, Riley has no way to fly back to her dad, so she and Aspen embark on a cross country road trip, all the while pursued by men with guns, mad scientists, and the monstrous truth. Slowly, Riley realizes something's not quite right with Aspen, which puts her feelings for her-and her own humanity-to the ultimate test.

Genres: urban fantasy, horror, romance

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[mayleitz]

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[libraryofbaxobab]

July 18, 2023:

Jaw-dropping. Nothing has brought me back to my younger self as accurately as the beginning of this book. I saw myself here so clearly throughout, and I can only hope I'm half as brave

🏳️‍🌈/10

#WhatsKenyaReading

[averyqueerhalloween]

can you recommend any lesbian horror lit?

Do you mean Lit as in Literary Fiction? Because I don't really know much about that genre tbh but I can definitely recommend some Lesbian Horror.

The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield (I believe this one is actually lit fic)

Providence Girls by Morgan Dante (believe this is a horror romance)

Things We Say In The Dark by Kristy Logan ( sapphic horror short stories)

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

The Scourage Between Stars by Ness Brown

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Let The Woods Keep Our Bodies by E.M Roy

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

[fourthleafluck]

gothic horror + sapphic romance??? yes please???

Alexandra from The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by the fabulous @nothwell . This is the first side of a reversible keychain. Kit coming soon!

[ladzwriting]

Expert on queer gothic and queer vampires @ghostpoetics, author of A FLAME IN THE NIGHT, has the following to say about The Fealty of Monsters:

“With the dark gothic fantasy sensibilities of Berserk, Castlevania, and Bloodborne, Ladz’s first volume of THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS is thrilling, gory, and queer as hell. A must-read.”

It's Valentine's Day and I need to shout out their forthcoming F/F/F vampire romance, UNHOLY WITH EYES LIKE WOLVES, coming out April 16, 2024, which I called "indulgent, depraved, and sanguine"

It's Carmilla. It's Elizabeth Bathory. It's so much fun.

The Fealty of Monsters comes out on March 12, 2024

[bones-clouds]

best books i read in 2024:

"house of hunger"

alexis henderson

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

genre: horror, gothic, historical, wlw

synopsis:

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.

A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.

Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper, seeking a bloodmaid.

Though she knows little about the far north--where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service--Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery--and at the center of it all is her.

Countess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She'll need to learn the rules of her new home--and fast--or its halls will soon become her grave.

[foundintheforgotten]

Found in the Forgotten: Issue #1

A Sapphic/LGBT+ Grimdark Fantasy Comic Written by Queer Creators. Featuring Romance, Horror, & More!

"Waking up with zero memory of who she once was, Theory finds herself suddenly thrown into a world where monsters lurk at every corner, and she might just be one of them. The Kingdom of Hollowcourt follows one simple rule: magic is no longer allowed. After the lands were ravaged by a war between arcane practitioners, survivors rebuilt society, practicing mundane science, technology, and invention. Though their feats are by no means mundane. Unfortunately, Theory has already broken this rule by simply existing. Gifted with innate magic of unknown origins, she must now navigate determining her identity while remaining under the nose of the ever-watchful eyes of The System and learning who she can trust amongst a sea of snakes."

Disclaimer: Found in the Forgotten is an 18+ comic. It will feature nudity, NSFW scenes, and mature themes!

Meet the Main Character + Her Love Interests:

Theory is a woman lost to this new and unraveling world. Her main goal is to find out who she was before this and why she has powers that have long since been both outlawed and eradicated by the land.

Nemmet is a woman of action rather than words. Naturally intimidating, both due to her sheer size and her steely gaze, Nemmet warns away anyone who might try to get close to her, and for good reason. The weight of responsibility and power falls heavy on her shoulders. But can Theory manage to see Nemmet for who she truly is beyond the walls she's built?

Qhysheifa is a woman who knows how to play the courtly game, and she plays it very well. She has a number of people indebted to her throughout the kingdom. She always tries to look her best to keep up appearances, but she's not above getting down and dirty if the situation calls for it. Unlike Nemmet, Sheifa is all too willing to lend a helping hand, but will it be for selfish reasons?

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[apolline-lucy]

goodbye september. you’ve been good to me. you made me an author. you gave me rain and sweater weather. you turned my daughter 3. you gave me time for reading. you inspired me to plot my next book. you gave me new friendships. thank you. i’ll see you next year ♡

my book THE SILVER BIRDS is out. if you like witches, plant magic, spooky woods, winged monsters, REAL enemies to lovers (sapphic), and horror mixed with humour, this dark fantasy novel is for you.

[sapphicbookclub]

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy.

Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they’re not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life’s work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost.

Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the waves. But the secrets of the deep come with a price.

Genres: fantasy, horror, romance

Order from Blackwell's here and get free worldwide shipping!

Listen to the book on audiobooks.com here!

[haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll]

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Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has brought part of it back with her, onto dry land and into their home. Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp.

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